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Mexico

Founder of Global-Minds, and associated with Knoware, and the Exponential Mexico Think Tank; explores issues concerning new literacies, exponential technologies, mobile and scale learning, and imagination economies. -Senior Advisor in Latin America, on Innovation, Learning and Competitiveness. Knowledge based societies, human development and intellectual capital. -Individual and organizational knowledge management. -Skills development for connected emerging economies. -Smart cities and talent axis.

External Advisor at Promexico. Business Intelligence Unit with the projects to promote the creative industries technological roadmap and the design of a Digital Creative City.

Under contract with UNDP, has been advisor for the Presidency of Panama on Government Innovation and the Conectate al Conocimiento project.Has been consultant for the Latin American Institute Communications in Education in several projects dealing with European cooperation, the Academic Committee, and the e-learning prospective project. Consultant for Intel Mexico Corporation for higher and elementary education. Consultant for Microsoft Latin America. Education area and for the Partners in learninga nd Unlimited Potential initiatives.

Updating master plan for Latin American Network of Educational Portals (RELPE), submitted to the education Ministers council under the Ibero-american Presidential Summit

Creation of Children Network to promote: a) To Construct the meaning of Child Rigths by children themselves. b) To develop life skills including internet and computers for learning and communication, c) To collaborate without boundaries The project developed a website for children learnin g communities including material on several child rigths issues like violence, labor exploiting, drugs, ecology.

Innovative projects for Latin America Region for digital technology and learning processes, in alliance with MIT Media Lab and the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition.

To coordinate on behalf of the National research Council the National Scientific information system as an institutional network of libraries, and science documentation centers organized by Energy, technology, agriculture, health, education and commerce national subsystems. Part of the regional Network of scientific information systems with Organization of American States and UNESCO.

Lester Pearson Fellow Award, Telematics

Activities and Societies: Mathematics and computerscience department in collaboration with Operations research department of University.

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